Show Notes
On angry young women. Ashley Frawley, sociologist and senior editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to delve more deeply into young people's political polarisation on gender lines.
Why is there a lack of mutual understanding or goodwill between young men and women when we have never been more equal?
Why do differing political views on anything from Israel/Palestine to Donald Trump cause such interpersonal rancour?
Young women are centrally concerned with pain, trauma, and empathy – and see men as lacking. What's behind this?
How is the conservative explanation (bad lefty ideas) just as faulty as the lefty one (patriarchy)?
What will the political consequences be of gender polarisation?
For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Links:
Revealed: the new radicalism among young women, Scarlett Maguire, New Statesman
Meet the Angry Young Women, Emily Lawford, New Statesman
Why young women are so angry, Pippa Bailey, New Statesman
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”, Jack Davey, The Critic Magazine
Why do young women hate men?, New Statesman, YouTube
/394/ Girls, Left / Boys, Right ft. Nina Power (see for additional links)
Girls and Boys are becoming very different, Alex Hochuli, Substack
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